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In reply to the discussion: Question: Why are people stocking up on toilet paper? [View all]brokephibroke
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I always get mine at Costco and was a couple weeks out from needing more. It's eastern Washington
brewens
Mar 2020
#38
I went monday. I'm in a town of 50,000, in an area just big enough to have a Costco.
brewens
Mar 2020
#61
One 12 pk last more than a couple weeks. Don't know why people need 4 or 5 or 6.
LizBeth
Mar 2020
#78
I suspect you don't take Metformin. With that, eating is a trigger for a lot of us each time we eat.
Shrike47
Mar 2020
#87
Because this is the one thing that you will run out of - that will make you leave your house
jpak
Mar 2020
#21
I was at a Costco the other day, and people's carts were brimming over with plastic water bottles!
klook
Mar 2020
#40
It assuages one of our most basic-level fears, dealing with bodily waste. That, along with
chia
Mar 2020
#28
Wow. I never knew. I put one in my Amazon shopping cart for future consideration.
Hekate
Mar 2020
#86
I ordered two toilet mounted bidets which ought to greatly cut down on the TP used.
Kaleva
Mar 2020
#39
Spam.. .ugh. haven't tasted it since I was a kid. Can still imagine the taste and consistency
Demovictory9
Mar 2020
#55
That's my reason. There may be a period of time in particular hard-hit areas when going
wiggs
Mar 2020
#127
I was in Costco yesterday in the Bay Area and EVERYONE was buying toilet paper
DonaldsRump
Mar 2020
#82
Yeah craziness, but if you really need some and Costco is out, Big Lots and Meijers each had plenty
Captain Zero
Mar 2020
#130
Whatever you would do for an impending natural disaster, do now? Quarantine without notice...
Hekate
Mar 2020
#85
Everyone I know will not be quarantined at the same time. I will promise them, and they can promise
LizBeth
Mar 2020
#91
i asked that too!!!!! and I live at ground zero for this virus....i watched the news and saw all the
samnsara
Mar 2020
#103
future weeks long or months long quarantine is real possibility, unless you have
beachbumbob
Mar 2020
#108